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December 2019 December 2019

Water Meadows OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
A meeting between the Parish Council and Dorset Council to discuss the
protection of the water meadows, within the conservation area, is scheduled BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
before the next Parish Council Meeting. The outcome of this meeting will be
discussed at the December Parish Council Meeting. Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
preachers.

Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
Parish Clerk
Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time) Chapel Toddlers Group
A new Parish Clerk, Anna Bendall, has been appointed. Anna can be contacted Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
by email Affpuddleandturnerspuddleclerk@outlook.com
As once again Christmas will soon be here it is good for us to pause in the midst of
all the preparations and busyness to remember Jesus, Who is at the heart of
Christmas.
Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle Parish Council – Contact Details
On Sunday morning 22 December at 10.30am we will be having our Carol
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Parish Councillor/ Email Address Telephone Service. You are warmly invited to join us for this joyful occasion, when we will sing
Clerk number familiar carols and hear again the story of the birth of Jesus.

Anna Bendall – Parish Affpuddleandturnerspuddleclerk@outlook.co
Clerk m No Vacancies
Sue Jones - Chairman Sue.jones@silversands.co.uk 01929 471375 “Sorry, no vacancies”
the signs read at a
Charles Barter – Vice Charles.barter@thewatercresscompany.com 01929 463663
Chairman business reception
desk, or job centre or
Lizzie Guinn lizzieguinn@hotmail.com 01305 848916 hotel entr ance
lobby. Often these
Graham Lightfoot glightfoot@glightfoot.plus.com 01929 471498
days the word ‘sorry’
Sarah Lowman sarah@keepings.plus.com 01929 472702 is omitted too. No
compassion either?
Stuart Chorley Schorley30@gmail.com 01929 472869
Such was the
Trevor Poole Trevorpoole100@hotmail.com 01929 471496
situation for Mary
and Joseph as they
arrived in Bethlehem
in obedience to the Roman census demand. (Luke 2:1-5) Because of the vast
crowd of visitors in the area, wherever Joseph went and enquired, there the ‘no
vacancy’ signs were displayed. You can imagine Joseph pleading with the
manager of the Inn, telling him of Mary’s condition and their desperate need of a
place where she could have their child. Yet there was no room for them in the inn.
In the traditional account of the event it is thought that the inn-keeper put Mary
and Joseph in the worst accommodation possible, in a barn, shed or outhouse at
the back somewhere, well out of the way, where they would cause no trouble,
inconvenience or embarrassment. (Luke 2:6-7)

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